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Forgotten New York was the first-ever recipient of Outstanding New York City Website by the Guides Association of New York City in March 2015!

Forgotten New York is associated with the Greater Astoria Historical Society

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Monthly Archives: June 2002

Welcome to Forgotten NY’snewest installment of “Who Are Those Guys & Gals” in which we investigate statues of real people in Manhattan. Some are instantly recognizable, some are not recognizable at all, but if you’ve ever wondered who they are…you came to the right place… CONTINUED FROM PART 3 (1855-1929) Location: 2 Penn Plaza Sculptor: Adolph […]

Early British colonists in Maspeth were chased out by angry Native Americans, and found themselves where Queens Boulevard meets Broadway today. There they met a possibly more implacable foe…the Dutch, who had this thing about naming places in Dutch, and the Brits were forced to call their new settlement Middelburgh (or Middletown). That name persists as […]